Games
Dancer and Justin have introduced me to the joys of X-COM Apocolypse. I'm a bit of a closet turn-based tactical/strategy junkie (I loved board games like Diplomacy and Space-Hulk), and X-COM III has really tickled my fancy.

Work
Dan's been making me very happy by encouraging me to bullet-proof and harden some of our older and more critical software. Good Dan. :)

There's also been a bit of a restructure in the dev team. I'm interested to see how it turns out.

Blooper of the Week
It would appear that our phone system depends upon our DNS functioning correctly. Broken DNS = Broken phones. Utterly weird.

Finance::Quote
Volker Stuerzl has been kind enough to write and contribute a Deutsche Bank Gruppe module for Finance::Quote. We can expect it to be released with version 1.02.

Unfortunately the ASX have re-butchered their site, and so the ASX module is broken. This sucks because the 1.01 test suite takes FOREVER to run, because it results in timeouts rather than unreachable host/refused connection. Guess I'll have to rewrite the ASX module properly so that it batches requests.

I intend to roll F::Q 1.01 into GnuCash this weekend. Promise.

• 9th August: Yes, your offer will be accepted. No problems at all. I'll go and talk to her tonight.
• 10th August: The vendor has had a fight with her brother. She might not want to sell because she wants to live there herself. I'll find out for certain and let you know tomorrow.
• 11th August: I couldn't contact her, but I really need to sit down and talk to her in person. We'll definitely know by tomorrow.
• 12th August: The vendor's had some business problems and needs to talk to her solicitors. She's meeting with them on Monday. We'll know for certain then.
• 13th August:Sunday: Waiting for Monday
• 14th August:The solicitors are in court, so she can't get in contact with them. They're definitely not in court tomorrow, so we'll absolutely know by then. No questions about it.
• 15th August:The vendor hasn't talked to her solicitors. She's going to ring them from home tonight. We'll definitely know by tomorrow.

ARRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!

How hard is it supposed to be just to make an offer on a damn house? You'd think that if they went to all the trouble of putting it on a market and dealing with real estate agents that you'd actually want to sell! *grumble*

Work
Have been elected as chief fire-warden for our floor. I think this means that if anyone dies in a fire, it's my fault. I'm honoured nonetheless.

It looks as if we're heading towards proactively fixing problems before they become huge nasty bugs out in the real world. Of course, this might all change next week.

Bike
Still sick. Might get time to do something about it tomorrow. Definitely by ... Saturday.

Open Source
Nothing which I've done, although there's been a bit of interest in people writing new modules for Finance::Quote, which will be good if it happens. (In this case the modules are for UK mutual funds.)

ADOM
Have dropped back a couple of versions because gamma 16pre-2 keeps segfaulting, and g15 segfaults even more. I think it would be nice if Thomas left debugging symbols in the binary -- at least then I could use the magic of gdb to say which function is causing the problems.

Work
My most recent paycheque is wrong. It doesn't include reimbusement for pizza. (Yes, I legitimately claim pizza purchased for the company every week.)

Laserdiscs
My laserdiscs arrived, so I'll probably have a few friends over shortly to help me watch them. Unfortunately AnimEigo screwed up my order, leaving out one LD and giving me to two of another. Hopefully they'll be able to resolve this in a satisfactory manner.